Class instruction in Christian Science from an accredited teacher is a step which every alert student anticipates with eagerness. It is a step in the educational system of Christian Science which our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has provided for us and which should not be unduly delayed in the student's experience.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says of Science (p. 558), "When understood, it is Truth's prism and praise." The prophet Ezekiel caught the resplendency of Truth and described it thus (Ezek. 1:28): "As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord." The purpose of class instruction is to so open the student's thought to the glory of God that the effulgence of Truth may pour in upon him, enlarging his demonstrable understanding of the allness of Spirit and the nothingness of matter thereby establishing him in Christian Science.
There is but one school of Christian Science, one teaching, namely, the teaching of our Leader's writings, which present the revelation in its pristine purity, unadulterated by human conjecture. The chapter "Recapitulation," from which Primary class pupils are instructed, is as its title indicates, a brief and inspired recapitulation or summary of the complete statement of Christian Science contained in the textbook. Of this chapter Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 465), "Absolute Christian Science pervades its statements, to elucidate scientific metaphysics."
